Announcement: I can’t take it anymore

I am out of here!

With regret, but also relief, I want you to know that my ongoing series, “Things Trump Has Done Since Last Wednesday,” has ended. I talked it over with my doctor, and she said that in addition to cutting back on my salt and fat intake I should avoid things that utterly piss me off.

I’ve been running the pieces on Wednesdays ever since the administration’s first week. There have been a disconcerting number of heinous things to put on these lists, and the cavalcade of incompetence will no doubt continue for as long as this billionaire doofus is in charge, which — don’t forget the 4/5 odds at Ladbroke’s — could be less than a year. Only time will tell. It’s what will be happening while we wait that scares me.

From the blog’s statistics on Wednesdays, I also know that the Trump series has been depressing my readers as well. This one’s for you.

I’ll come up with something more life-affirming on Wednesdays from now on. Here’s hoping that we all find ways to endure that offer some assurance that the sun will come up tomorrow and all kitties go to heaven.

I get it. I actually posted something on Facebook last night suggesting that we all need to stop reacting to every drip of information that comes out — particularly with respect to the whole Russia thing. I wish the media would do so as well. The endless, breathless reporting of every little thing. Can we please return to man bites dog stories?

As someone who ODs on newsy websites, I feel your pain and agree with your therapist. If you’re not already doing this, put your energy into calling your reps, tweeting at them, emailing them, whatever. I don’t know if it really works, but at the least I feel my Democrat reps need shoring up, so sometimes I call just to say “thank you” for trying ;). Yeah, every time I think it can’t get any worse … but as far as that Russian business … that’s some serious treasonous shit there. You know they must have something to hide when they are trying (like the Keystone Kops) so hard to obfuscate the media and the American people. I wish I could avoid it all, but I. Just. Can’t. Too much is at stake. Like, I don’t know, our democracy?

I remember being super politically active when the Gingrich revolution was in full swing. Went to a Jesse Jackson march and speech in SF, called, wrote, marched some more. Then came GW and we marched again. Now I have a recalcitrant GOP congressman who’s like a piece of Trump software and will never cast a less-than-reactionary vote, but I’m still writing and calling. You’re right. When that’s all you can do, you have to do it.